Language and Dollar Value Grow Fuzzier in Inflation Text
AP notes inflation reshapes speech as costs rise from dirt to dollars. Dirt costs 2 cents per cable yard, dirt at $1.55 this month, chicken feed up sharply, Continental dollar worth about $15 two years ago, now $40, gunpowder up 22 to 40 percent, ink and newsprint priced higher, a tinker earns $1 an hour, a muffed thumb could earn 2.5 cents in a jokey local Centralia reflection on rising prices.
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Continental Congress
Centralia
Man survives 20 foot well entrapment in Mill Village
Robert Windsor of Windsor's Trailer Court was trapped for over an hour in a 20 foot underground tank near the William McLaughlin residence. Fire crews used oxygen, backhoes, and a lowered rescuer to pull Windsor free at 6 40 pm. He was taken to Vincent Hospital in Erie for observation and later listed in good condition.
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Mill Village
Edinboro
Robert Windsor
Windsor
William McLaughlin
Stancliff Hose Company
Waterford
Frank Mills
Gordon Peters
Peters
John Mortis
Vincent Hospital
Erie
NBC Cancels Sierra Adventure Series After Low Ratings
NBC announced the cancellation of Sierra, an hour long series about U.S. Forest Rangers in the Sierra Nevadas, after its December broadcast. no replacement was decided. Low ratings were blamed, marking the first cancellation among NBC's nine new shows for the 1974-75 season.
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New York
NBC
Sierra
Sierra Nevadas
Alive Not Well Chestnut Cuttings Show Promise Despite Decline
In Watertown Massachusetts a computer aid helps blind people spell check and proofread by dialing a phone linked device. MIT researchers led by Dr Kenneth Ingraham developed the system to read technical words and assist payrolls inventories and invoices. John Moravek displays chestnut cuttings from his Spring Creek Township farm noting trees bore nuts for five years but fruits never mature. The finding suggests limited revival potential for the American chestnut despite widespread decline.
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John Moravek
Sixth Avenue
Spring Creek Township
Cobbs Corners
Moravek
McMichael
Watertown
Mass
MIT
Research Laboratory of Electronics
Kenneth Ingraham
Ford orders tougher penalties in price fixing drive
President Ford backing sharp antitrust steps targets price fixing by executives in various industries. He urged Congress to raise corporate fines to 1 million dollars and individuals to 100000, and to lift prison terms from one to five years. The move follows strong statements by antitrust officials about the cost of anti competitive practices.
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Washington
Ford Administration
Ford
Congress
Harry S. Truman
Thomas E Kauper
Justice Department
Antitrust Division
Tam
Department
Federal Trade Commission
Atty
William B. Saxbe
House
Sampson claims he saved Makarios during Cyprus coup
Nikos Sampson says he saved Archbishop Makarios from assassination by ordering him to flee to a British helicopter. He recounts the July 16 near-miss at Paphos as Greek officers threatened to fire, and he allegedly told them to let Makarios go. Sampson’s account cites his eight days in office after the July coup before Turkish invasion.
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Cyprus
Nikos Sampson
Makarios
Sampson
Mahi
Paphos
Episkopi Sampson
National Guard
Kypros Mourouzides
Glafcos Clerides
House of Representatives
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